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I seem to recall getting Ace Combat for my Xbox... backlog. I will probably pick this one up.

I got a Google Home, which now serves as my alarm clock. It's smart enough that I can say, eg. "wake me in an hour," and that's kind of cool. But it has trouble understanding my slurred morning speech, so it isn't perfect. When I listen to music, it will occasionally start reciting Wikipedia...

I've never used lived bookmarks, outside trying that "Active Desktop" thing back on Windows 95 + ie4. RSS is nice, but I've always preferred to go looking rather than having information pushed on me. Website notifications is the new RSS I think, and I always pick the never option. You're part...

Well, I'm tempted to get Prime just for The Expanse. But like you said, they got nothing else. But doesn't prime also have music streaming? I might be able to justify getting prime with that :/

Benchmark the old Intel Atoms, or one of the earlier ARM implementations without spectacular execution, and you should be in the ballpark.

Not necessarily, I personally use Firefox but do most of my testing against Chrome. Once upon a time I tested in all browsers, including Opera, but these days "works like Chrome" seems to be the new web-standard. I just now gave my website a spin on Firefox, and with me doing nothing Firefox 61...

There's no money in driving gamers away, so whatever they do they'll be sure to optimize towards draining our wallets. So they'll more likely be auto adjusting their skill level so that you're always one micro-transaction away from victory.

Don't know what chipset my WiFi use, but I claimed to support Linux and I got it working after compiling source code and following a mix of obscure forum posts and guides written for other distributions. It was like black magic, typing in commands into a terminal and having no idea what they...

No doubt, but in a way I agree. Multiplayer has never been my thing, and while Marathon/Halo 2/Halo 3/etc may be great MP games, SP wasn't enjoyable. Halo is the only good one in my book, and that despite how the game was rushed through development. Halo 2 was such a letdown.

My WoW moments are... First time: Doom on a 486. No idea about the graphic card, but seeing the game run smoothly impressed. Before that I thought my SNES stood a chance with a little helping from Mr. Super FX. Second time: Unreal on a Voodoo 1 or banshee. I don't know which but it blew me...

Me too. Damn, should have sprung for a 4GB card. Didn't think it would ever matter.

There is torture in one of the flashbacks: "That guy who has his brain sucked out".

I played this on a 460 GTX with 1GB RAM. Resolution 1440x900 + FXAA, medium settings. While not Crysis 3, the graphics were fine. There was hardly any noticeable texture popup and framerate hit 60 FPS. The game itself is one of the best I've played. I got no real complaints. There were even a...

This assumes consoles have a future. Smart TV, set-top boxes and tablets are getting more powerful and will only eat more and more of the marked. Unless Sony can compete with these there will not be a PS5 at all. Personally I'll never get an always online Xbox as my internet connection is...

I've never gotten that error. In my case steam just failed to show the UI. When steam fails it isn't like when xbox live has trouble, where you loose MP, you loose most of your library. On top of that Steam support is useless, and so is the error messages the client spits out (and there's no...

Try adding "-tcp" to the steam shortcut? Steam will then be very slow to start up, so let it sit there connecting for 4-5 minutes. This has worked for me in the past.

1994: Hercules Stingray Had color issues, apparently a known problem with those cards, got RMAd for... 1994: ATI Mach64 1Mb Good card. Runs 1024x768 with 256 colors, though needed a TSR for VESA. 1998: Ati 3Dcharger 4MB Good 2D, worthless 3D. I got X-wing Alliance working in...

Interesting. Never cared for Halo 2/3, but I did like 1. Will have to borrow/check out Reach.

My favourite is Final Fantasy... 1. No fancy transparencies or Mode 7 effects. Has music that makes your ears bleed and a story that's barley worth paying attention too. But it's fun. It's the only FF where you make your own characters, and I felt closer to them than the usual angst...

It was mentioned that one had to use an included script for best result. I haven't tried to plugin but took a quick look at the source code. There's quite a bit of "black magic guesswork" in there, the way it basically works is by randomly looking around a subset of the image for a pattern...

I've heard there are four endings. Got the nice one as I didn't kill anyone. I also used the ice/drill combo but I tried to stay away from it as it made the game a little too easy - though I only played on normal. My favorite part was wandering around as the little girl and seeing the world go...

Well, I've been playing for 6 hours according to steam and have not seen the end yet. For comparison I played through HL2 episode one twice in that much time.

I liked the prologue but the multiplayer was "meh". I bought the game for the SP so I don't really care but I think they lost an opportunity. Instead of "me too" MP they could have made it more story focused, with the objective being getting the most adam in pre-fall rapture instead of frag...

There's a walking speed++ tonic. Not sure how much difference it makes since I've had it equipped all the time.

I've not played as far as some here but I'm really liking this. The game is pretty much what I wanted but I wouldn't have minded some game engine upgrades. My biggest graphical gripe is that you don't reflect, so when I look into water all I see is the ceiling. The story manages to be...

IME Winrar does better with corrupt archives than 7-zip - though it years since I've had a need to extract stuff from corrupt archives. Interestingly I bought Winrar back then and my license is still valid for this version. Nice.

Had a computer with 24MB RAM and 1 MB VRAM. Miss that thing.

If you're happy with onboard video the 790GX is fine. Unless you get a pretty beefy graphic card the i5 will not be a whole lot faster in gaming - perhaps a little slower even due to immature drivers – and the AMDs also do pretty well in video encoding and such. Overclocking will also...

I got a P55-GD65 mobo, the same CPU and almost the exact same memory (I was stupid and bought the AMD version). I've not had any freezes, my only problem was that the mobo or perhaps the PSU would make an annoying coil whine noise when Green Power was activated, the CPU usage were below 10% and...

I've never managed to keep Win98 happy for more than ~3-4 weeks. After that long (with daily usage) it's started behaving oddly: icons getting messed up, the disk trashing, and eventually I had to reboot to get things back to a sensible state. Win2k was actually worse. It would BSOD on...

Switch someone's iPhone out and then take it from them when they make a phone call and break it?

<quote>Yeah 3 little UI buttons that are the most used functions of the entire interface.</quote> *Looks at the buttons* Hey, you're right: they are different from XP. Honestly, hadn't noticed until now :)

Try holding shift when closing the application.

Most PC laptops, including Dell, use Synaptics touchpads (which can support two finger scrolling). Try installing drivers from Synaptics and see if yours can. Some touchpads can, some can't.

My mem chips have to be overvolted to 2.0V to run with two sticks; that's 0.2V over specs. 2.1V makes them overheat, 1.95V leads to mem errors on mem diagnostic. I also have to loosen the timings to 5-5-5-18 instead of 4-4-4-12. Though I’m running a mix of Corsair and Geil so loosened timings...

Did you reboot the virtual PC when you specified the NIC? Local is for networks that only exists within Virtual PC. NAT place a gateway between the Virtual PC and the outside network. Specifying the nic should put you on the same subnet as your host OS and is the option you must pick if you...

Win95 was good because it ran Dos, Windows and Windows NT apps and drivers with 16MB of memory. NT was a mem hog. BeOS was a cool tech demo. NeXT got bought. BSP/Linux wasn’t even pretending to be user friendly. And I never thought Win95 was user friendly until I tried OS/2 Warp...

Try a PS/2 mouse

For running Windows 2000 in a VM? No, I don't think so. HW visualization does not seem to be any faster and whatever speed up you get is unlikely to put an E6300 on top.

I had laggy scrolling in Firefox (with aero enabled) until I updated my video drivers.